Security Trust & Savings Bank v. Fidelity & Deposit Co.

The appeal from the judgment in favor of the defendant in this action to quiet title to real property, situate in the city of Los Angeles, involves a determination of the legal effect of several and various transactions appertaining to the execution, satisfaction, and release of certain mortgages upon the property in suit. The facts of the case are practically undisputed and, as revealed by the pleadings, proof, and findings, are these: Johanna Agnes Keffel, the owner of the property in suit through whom both plaintiff and defendant derive their respective claims of interest in said property,…